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A week ago, Lib Dem Voice invited the members of our private discussion forum (open to all Lib Dem members) inviting them to take part in a survey, conducted via Liberty Research, asking a number of questions about the party and the current state of British politics. Many thanks to the 200 of you who completed it; we’ve been publishing the results on LDV over the last few days.

Today, we turn our attention to the performance of the Liberal Democrat shadow cabinet, and a handful of other senior Lib Dems. Reproduced below, in alphabetical order, are the full results of our survey, which shows how effective each MP is felt by members to be, together with a net satisfaction rating (those who think they’re very/fairly effective minus those think they’re very/fairly ineffective). The figure in brackets is their net satisfaction rating in September 2009, the last time we polled party members.

For those looking for our ‘golden dozen’ most popular Lib Dem shadow cabinet members, here it is:

In general, most of the shadow cabinet have improved their ratings since last we asked the question, almost six months ago. Particularly noteworthy are Chris Huhne, Danny Alexander, David Heath, David Laws, Jeremy Browne, Paul Burstow, Sarah Teather, Simon Hughes and Tim Farron – all record double digit increases in their net satisfaction ratings.